Can I get some help with school

[drfuzzy]

That's terrible advice to be a programmer. Nobody in the programming world cares what school you went to. They only care how well you can program.

Sure, if your goal is to hack code at $20/hr for a living. If you want to be a project lead at a young age, if you want to work for a major company and make fantastic money, the best way to do that is still college. If you want to innovate, you need to understand advanced data structures and algorithms and be fluent in multiple languages, and you're not gonna get that at ITT tech. Also, the field is moving towards IS, and I bet Tibs would tell you he is grateful for his schooling.

There are always exceptions to the rule. There are hyper talented kids that taught themselves everything and make great programmers. I wouldn't count on that. And I'm not.

My brother has worked for the last 30 years as a programmer - successfully, I might add.  (I brag about him a lot.)  He took some college classes, and was better at programming than the teachers were.  He did not graduate.  He worked on his own projects until he got hired.   
    HOWEVER, this was 1980.  He tells people now to get a degree.  He believes that the level of teaching has improved.  Most of the IT guys that I talk to tell folks to get a degree, and for IT, it seems that the degree is usually required - - unless you have a lot of experience.